Canter,
I am genuinely sorry that it has got to the point where a court hearing was felt necessary, and it is perfectly understandable that anyone could find such an experience to be intimidating and more than a little frightening, as there is usually so much more to be lost than there ever is to win. It is extremely rare that either party will get all of what they are hoping to. Sometimes the best possible outcome is a mutually agreeable compromise where each person gets some of what they want, but certainly not all of it.
There is unfortunately for you nothing in your reading which specifically says whether it will go more in your favour, an/or by how much. It is more along the line of general advice with the intention to at least increase your chances that it will not be a total whitewash from your perspective.
One of the most important pieces of advice is for you is to always ensure that you are actually seeking justice as fair compensation for your significant losses, rather than as so often happens revenge on the person for whatever they have done in the form of a deeply personal attack upon them and their standing within the community.
Do all your homework beforehand and work closely with your legal representative to assemble whatever solid physical evidence is available to you for your day in court, rather than depending entirely on sketchy circumstantial evidence or hearsay. Once you have done this properly then there is little more for you to do, as it is now basically up to your lawyer or legal counsel to use his or her negotiation skills to their maximum on your behalf as the client.
Also from a more spiritual outlook, it might be a good time for you to develop more faith in the process which you have set in motion, and find some comfort in prayer or the knowledge that whatever the outcome of your case might eventually turn out to be, things are unfolding in everyone's best interests and that what is happening was meant to happen.
The judgment of the court is final, and there is very little point in being bitter and losing your own self respect by complaining that you were hard done by, as to a certain extent the success of your case rides heavily upon you getting your facts straight and clear in your mind, before the hearing and not as an afterthought or reason to live a life always regretting that you had not done so.
Now I am not going to be so patronizing or attempt to make you believe that this is going to be an easy process or that your favourable judgment is effectively already in the bag before you ever reach court. This is I feel going to be a protracted battle with no prisoners being taken (no pun intended), and I seriously doubt on the basis of this reading that your case will be satisfactorily resolved in the course of one sitting or day.
Things are going to I warn you get a little messier and more complicated, before with this issue before any significant positive progress is going to be made possible on either side of the fence. Contrary to the generally accepted belief that Justice means that the person should always gets exactly what he or she deserves to fit their crime or act of deceit or betrayal, it is more a law of wisely and fairly to all balancing the consequences of one's conscious actions with the actions themselves.
Justice is not simply an abstract concept made up entirely by humans for their own legal purposes, but it is a core rule of the Universe and of life itself. First comes the action (the cause), followed eventually by its consequences (the effect). Even in life itself outside of the courtroom, effect follows cause like night after day, not because it should be that way, but solely because it is intentionally set up that way by a power which or whom is much greater and wiser than any of us are.
Whatever the final decision will be, be certain not to tempt the law of cause and effect by continuing to fight your battles long after the war is over, or at the very least a relatively peaceful state of truce has been reached.
There are always higher courts than this one, not all of them being in the physical world?
True justice will finally be carried out in one or the other of these, EVENTUALLY.
Good luck on the day, although if both you and your legal adviser are well prepared before the event, then random luck has very little if anything to do with it.
eye_of_tiger
